Following on from yesterday’s post, here’s a list of things one librarian has found in returned books. The white-on-pale-blue-with-Winnie-the-Pooh print isn’t so easy to read, but as she’s put HAIR! in capital letters with an exclamation mark, I’m guessing she’s found that experience both common and repulsive.
This is a really great article about things used booksellers have found in books.
I now have a yen to go work in a used bookstore and find a book with $40,000 in it!
And to think, I only ever mark my books with receipts, postcards and–gasp–bookmarks! How dull. I shall have to start writing interesting and cryptic little notes for librarians to find.
A Yellow 3 inch rubber snake?? x
Yeah, I’m getting quite a complex about only using proper bookmarks now…
Some of these were touching. The “nobody loves me” notes. I hope that person found out he/she was loved lots. The family photos. The wedding certificate. (Can’t tell you how many times I’ve lost mine!)
But I’d have to stuff myself into an autoclave if I wandered across a used Q-tip.
Thanks, Julie–great articles!
This reminds me. Once when I was working at my university library, we discover a polariod of a naked male torso. As far as i can recall, we also figured out which student it was…